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  Japan closes 638 Congregations!!!!! Why???

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  japan since the 1970''s has had amazing publisher increases!

  every year the number of witnesses shot up by many thousands.

  this peaked in 1998, since then the number of witnesses and congregations has continued to drop!.

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  Disfellowshiping only began in 1952!! Before this Witnesses were immoral!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  many witnesses lived together in sin or had many wives before 1952 during the rutherford era, this was frowned apoun but no one was disfellowshiped unless they did something major like critisize rutherford!

  then in watch.

  may 15 1944 and finally watch 1/3 1952, disfellowshiping was invented.

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  What Positive Things Have You Achieved Since Leaving?

  by sweet pea in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  purps' wonderful thread about love made me wonder about something else.

  what have you achieved/become since leaving the organisation that proves there is a happy, successful life outside being a jehovah's witness?

  for me, although it's only been a very short time, too short to achieve much, i count becoming: non-judgemental of my fellow man; a mum that can give her kids all the room to grow and blossom without fear of 'sinning' or being kicked out for bad behaviour; a person that can feel comfortable worshipping in a church or not, depending on whatever i feel like doing; someone who can love and give freely and celebrate life in all it's glory (i just love birthdays!

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  left 16yrs ago n still have issues and confidence probs,

  by xnmad in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ileft "the truth" 16yrs ago and still cant move on in some areas of my life, i have no family now as they stopped talking to me and have never relented.this has left me with serious problems with needing aproval from people in my life.i have never stopped trying to win my fathers aproval and no i,l never have it unless i go back(which would never happen)jus wondered if any1 else has similar hangups, n if you do, how do i deal with it n move on.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses Today & Yesterday

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jws today are not like the ones i knew when i was growing up.

  we used to look down upon those that didn't make all of the meetings and regularly go out in service every weekend!

  if someone was not in the theocratic ministry school----what was wrong with them???

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  where did everybody go

  by joelbear69 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  its been years since i posted.

  i've gone through a rough period.

  but i've posted enough about that.. i have recovered and hope to be part of the board again.

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  BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

  while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

  a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

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  My Bethel Experience Part 10

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there were guys at bethel, who had great jobs........like don brouex.....he was the receptionist at the 124 desk....checking in and "checking out" ......all the bethel tours and "hot" sisters......on there way through the "home tour"............that my friend, is not a real bethel job.. there were guys at bethel, that had great congergations with maybe only 2-4 bethelities in their halls.

  one hall, midtown had over 80 bethelites there.............. 3 old ladies 4 kids and a dog.

  odds of getting a home cook meal on sunday 0%.

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  Friday District Convention notes: Control, control, control

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, one third of the convention is over, i had no choice but to attend due to my current situation.. the talks were worse than last year, and as usual if you have seen the program you will not find jesus in any of the talk titles - in fact, the only time jesus is mentioned is during a prayer or in connection with the ministry.. when you become aware of how sidelined jesus is, you can't help but notice that jehovah's witnesses are a modern version of the old testament religion - it's all about control, be attentive, obey the "faithful and discreet slave" etc etc, in stark contrast to belief and salvation through jesus.. only the talks with midly interesting material or that had ridiculous phrases used by the speaker are shown here.. friday.

  9:50 be attentive to jehovah's promises of deliverance .

  would you believe that this 20 minute talk was solely about being attentive to the program?

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  Time again for........ Congregation roll call

  by Jourles in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.

  use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.

  1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??

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